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Wendell Albright

@wendella.bsky.social

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Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · Jun 10

It's like Asimov's "Nightfall" except instead of the stars driving us insane, it's social media...

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

"Fixing" the way "fixing" an animal's reproductive system means "destroying its ability".

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

Remember how MAGAs put bandages on their ears after Trump was winged?

I now fully expect them to start drooping the right side of their faces, in homage to their totally healthy not at all demented or ill orange deity.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 3h

The economy is crumbling, experts are warning global terrorism threats are rising with no one listening and Republicans are bumbling through the shutdown incapable of governing. All while Trump's mental decline is on full display. Today's Coffee With Texas Paul, JOIN US at 11 AM Eastern.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 2h

Whole lotta ‘why were there so many firefighters at the World Trade Center on 9/11’ with our disgraceful president’s pathetic statement about FBI agents responding to the 1/6 riot and heavily-publicized insurrection
at the US Capitol.

The logic of a liar.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

JD Vance said about 10,000 words on TV this morning, and 9,483 of them were lies.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2h

Seems Gamergate will never die.

I can't believe we've become a fascist country because so many men are too lazy to take a break from video games to jerk off to real porn.

x.com/mrphillipcha...

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

oopsie

Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2h

Early today 60 years ago at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, this C-124C Globemaster II was being refueled for a routine nuclear logistics mission when the fuel hose was accidentally disconnected. The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed. Only the wings and landing gear remained intact.

A color photograph of the US Air Force C-124C Globemaster II transport aircraft assigned to the Military Air Transport Service that was involved in this accident on the ground at an airport. The large doors to the cargo bay located below the aircraft’s nose, are open, and a long ramp leads up into the belly of the plane.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13h

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kids

Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

www.motherjones.com

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

JD adds "And we're doing that by doubling and tripling premiums for people using the Affordable Care Act"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

JD Vance: "We want to make sure that they skyrocketing healthcare costs of the Biden administration start to level off and hopefully come down."

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe there was a teenaged girl on the other side?

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 2h

Why did Donald Trump cross the road?

He has no idea.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of gambling ads here in the US, too, nowadays.

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

Supreme Court: "nuh-uh"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Tariff money is not a Trump Regime slush fund. It is tax money deposited into the US treasury and Congress has sole authority over the appropriation of tax dollars.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

yes, please

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Neil Gerardo @neilgerardo.bsky.social · 1h

FEDERALIST PAPER #47
BY JAMES MADISON
JANUARY 30, 1788
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

sheesh

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

unfortunately civilian agency employees also not receiving their pay can't milk the public's sympathy with obvious uniforms (I guess Park Rangers could)

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

ooh I'm in suspense, can this plucky underdog win again?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h

Cameroon’s 92-year-old president set for another term as country goes to polls

Paul Biya, in power since 1982, has brushed off calls to retire but is rarely seen in public Cameroon goes to the polls on Sunday for a presidential election with Paul Biya, already the world’s oldest head of state at the age of 92, the favourite to win an eighth term in power in the central African country. A fractured opposition of 11 candidates is standing against Biya, who, despite his advanced age and declining health, has dismissed calls for him to retire. Continue reading...

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

Blink Floyd

TheSocioPhi @thesociophi.bsky.social · 16h

Mash up bands:

Chumbastank

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 19h

Mash up bands:

Foo Sisters

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

"Due by COB"

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 4h

all in contradiction to the constitution and law